My former student starts blogging

Anna Roberts, one of my former students from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, just started her own blog at hobojabasa.blogspot.com. She’s a great person and a great musician, and it looks like she’s be posting about her dual life as bassist and oboist. Anna was always a great help to me during the Whitewater Winter Bassfest (an event I organized when I first got hired there), and she is a very cool person to boot.

She’s got a post up already about the effects this miserable weather we’re experiencing is having on both her reeds and her bass. She also happens to be a music education student at present, and I’m sure she’ll be writing about that whole process as well.

I’m always surprised as how many bassists and oboists blog. I wonder what exactly it is about these two instruments that makes the people that play them more likely to start a blog than other instruments (actually, we’ve had this conversation here before… about bassists, at least). Since she plays both, I figured it would only be a matter of time before she started blogging. Check it out!

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Jason Heath is the host of Contrabass Conversations, a podcast devoted to exploring music and ideas associated with the double bass. His blog and podcast are highly regarded in the music world and have been featured as top offerings in the world of arts and culture for the past decade.

An active double bass performer and teacher, Jason is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society of Bassists. Jason previously served on the faculty for DePaul University, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Trinity International University. Jason’s former students hold positions in the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Grant Park Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and Philharmonie Südwestfalen.